But a man's unusual gyrations in a parking lot were enough for workers at a local fast-food restaurant to call police.

Workers reported that the man kept reaching into his sweatpants while in the parking lot. Officers found him in the men’s room.

Police said they were concerned. The man said he “understood.”

Then, he explained the trouble – and shared the evidence.

The man said he had just gotten back from Tennessee in a pickup he bought. While gone, a relative stayed at his home.

The relative brought dogs, infested with fleas and ticks, into his home. The home was now infested. He told police that he stopped at the restaurant for breakfast when he “had been bitten in ‘his private area’ by a tick, and had then reached into his pants out of pain of the bite,” Hastings Police Chief Jerry Sarver said.

The man then returned to the restroom. He removed a tick, and showed it to officers.
Police opted not to confiscate the evidence.